Okay. So there's this song that I hear maybe once a year-- always somewhere totally unacceptable to jump up and down in, let alone to start quizzing people about their musical knowledge. Like the grocery store, or a bar in Canada once (they frown on jumping in Canada). I have no idea what this song is, or who sings it, but I love it so much. But every time I try to get to the bottom of the situation, the same scenario plays out:
Me: Oh, my God! It's the Cut the Bone to Me song! Do you hear it?
Whoever I'm With: The what to what song?
Me: "Cut the bone to me! Cut the bone to me!" That's what he's saying in the chorus. I think?
WIW: That doesn't even make any sense. How do you cut a bone to someone?
Me: I guess I don't know.
WIW: That sounds dirty.
Me: For real, it's going to be over soon, just listen.
WIW: I don't even hear anything.
Me: It's on the PA system! Just listen! Shut your gob and listen for five seconds and then you will tell me who sings this song!
WIW: This song sucks.
Me: No, it does not! It is awesome and elusive, like a monarch butterfly or El Chupacabra!
WIW: Isn't this just "Collide" by Howie Day?
Me: NO, IT ISN'T EFFING "COLLIDE" BY HOWIE DAY! I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU DON'T TELL ME WHO SINGS THIS SONG RIGHT NOW! KILL YOU WHERE YOU STAND!
WIW: I think it's over.
Me: Mother effer.
I had this exact conversation with Ben in the Chesterland Giant Eagle on Sunday, when the song emerged for its annual peek-a-boo while we were in the checkout line. I was actually on my way back to produce to buy some pepitas (which is apparently what you call pumpkin seeds when they are naked and shell-less), and I came careening back up to the front of the store when I heard it, only to be shut down again (but to be fair, Ben doesn't recognize any songs, including many beloved children's rhymes and also "Proud to Be an American" by Lee Greenwood).
So I beseech you, if you are aware of this song, please put me out of my misery and tell me what it is, so I can buy it, listen to it seven hundred times, and then never have to be driven half-mad by it again. Here's what I know about it:
1. The chorus at least sounds like the phrase "cut the bone to me, cut the bone to me," although that admittedly does sound really dirty
2. It does sound like Howie Day singing, but it's definitely not "Collide". Who else sings like Howie Day?
3. It came out no later than July 2005, because the first time I officially remember hearing it was at the aforementioned very calm bar in Canada, and that's the last time I ventured up north
Please help me! The "cut the bone to me" part will be in my head for at least the next six weeks if no one can come up with the name...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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3 pipers piping:
Well, Google has never heard that phrase before. Of course, now you're the only thing that comes up when I type that in. Is that what this is? You're cornering the market on dirty-ish phrases, like "unwilling adult"?
And I've never heard of Howie Day. I'm officially a fogey.
PS: Get off my lawn.
No idea. Are you sure it's not your own song? Maybe you're just hearing it in your head. You should get out your trombone and record it so we can all hear it!
Umm, I do believe I've been the WIW before and done the same Google search. So this gave me the same weird de ja vu that it gives me. And now I will be stuck pondering what the hell cut the bone to me means. (My word verification is "clave" - maybe that's the name of the song?)
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